tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post5937135570983797418..comments2024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00Comments on Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Dark They Were & Golden-EyedLeo Hartashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14417174942647091006noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-19568892533340223652009-05-04T18:09:00.000+01:002009-05-04T18:09:00.000+01:00I picked up most of my early fantasy & SF read...I picked up most of my early fantasy & SF reading from secondhand bookshops such as Thorp's in Guildford, a real Tardis of a place where you could wander from room to room for hours. DTWAGE's stock wasn't secondhand, of course, but it had that same gloriously chaotic sense that you might come across just about anything. IMT sounds like my kinda place!<br /><br />Most of the characterful bookshops in the South-East are gone now, their pipeline usurped by charity shops. For comics in London I go to Avalon Comics on Lavender Hill - run by Bruce Hawkins who, now that I've been shopping there for 20 years, knows exactly what sort of titles to put to one side for me :-)<br /><br />Just to bring this thread back to Mirabilis... Loving those old shops so much, Leo and I decided that Jack Ember grew up next door to one and was able to get in there at night through a loose board in his attic bedroom. Which explains why a working-class lad from 1901 knows so much about history and mythology.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-66238584690125973202009-05-04T12:42:00.000+01:002009-05-04T12:42:00.000+01:00Derek ‘Bram’ Stokes is now living in Lancaster whe...Derek ‘Bram’ Stokes is now living in Lancaster where he's seen - or has been seen in the past - working in the Oxfam bookshop on Penny Street. peter pinto (spelling deliberate), who ws his business partner at DTWAGE runs Interstellar Master Traders on North Road, which specializes in SF books these days and a few underground comics. It sounds like DTWAGE is a pale shadow of the chaos of IMT's layout. (If it's comics you're after in Lancaster, go to First Age in the Assembly Rooms on King Street, where you might also bump into comic creators such as Andy Diggle or Paul Harrison-Davies.John Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275476513933849893noreply@blogger.com